John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1814 June 28 Sketch of church porch at Feering. (JCC I, p. 105)
1814 June 30 Pencil drawing of vicarage at Feering. (JCC I, p. 105)
1814 July 1 To East Bergholt from Feering. (JCC I, p. 105)
1814 July 3 Letter from J.C. in East Bergholt to Maria in London: "I have
been absent from this place for near a fortnight, on a visit to
the Revd. Mr. Driffield at Feering near Kelvedon. . . . Some
time ago I promised him a drawing of his house and church at
Feering, and during my visit he had occasion to visit his living
of Southchurch, and I was happy to embrace his offer of
accompanying him—by which I saw much more of the
country of Essex than I ever had before. . . . I was at Maldon,
Rochford, South End, Hadleigh, Danbury &c &c. . . . I walked
upon the beach at South End. . . . At Hadleigh there is a ruin
of a castle . . . it commands a view of the Kent hills, the Nore
and North Foreland & looking many miles to sea. . . . I have
filled as usual a little book of hasty memorandums of the
places which I saw." (JCC II, p. 127; see also JCC I, pp. 104,
105)
1814 July 3-13 Returns to London "to collect his pictures from the
exhibition, discuss his prospects of election to the Academy
with Mr. Farington, and paint a couple of portraits." (JCC I, p.
105; see also JCC II, p. 128)
1814 July 13 Farington records: "Constable called. Spoke of His situation
and importance of being elected." (Farington XIII, p. 4555;
see also JCC II, p. 128)
1814 July 15 Farington records: "Reinagle & Collins first on Candidate list—
Jackson good taste—Academy sad state—Portrait—so
Frenchman sd.—none for visitors—Constable too unfinished—
S Lane not enough—sad choice of Oliver ill behaviour of
Professors." (Farington XIII, p. 4556)
1814 July 23 Farington records: "I returned home to breakfast & Constable
called upon me.—We talked abt. filling the vacancies of
Associates in November next. I told Him the objection made
to His pictures was their being unfinished; that Thomson gave
him great credit for the taste of His design in His Larger